Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily for us he was too overcome to offer us refreshment , so we said our farewells and got back into the jeep and drove off along the road leading to the village of Breville . |
| 2 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 3 | The car picked up speed and shot off into the distance . |
| 4 | When a bream sucks a bait to its lips the unwanted material is taken into the mouth and filtered off through the gills . |
| 5 | But he recovered his balance in a stride and made off for the water jump . |
| 6 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
| 7 | Then she turned the car and drove off down the lane . |
| 8 | He made her as comfortable as possible on the back seat of the car and drove off into the night . |
| 9 | In the end , Anna borrowed Lady Vestey 's BMW car and drove off into the night , angry and humiliated at her very public snub . |
| 10 | He gave my passport to the Corporal who put it into his pocket , then we got into the car and drove off in the direction of Lille . |
| 11 | By the time we had driven to Port Eynon , the wind had really picked up but not easily deterred , we abandoned the car and set off towards the cliffs . |
| 12 | But as the runners made round the left-hand bend in front of the stands and set off into the country for the first time she was joined in the lead by Run And Skip , and the company clearly put her off , for she hit the third fence hard . |
| 13 | She lifted it over the fence and set off across the little meadow , gathering speed and thoroughly enjoying it . |
| 14 | Disconsolately , we got back into the rickshaws and set off to the next address . |
| 15 | Sharpe slammed back his heels and took off down the road as if the demons of hell were at his heels . |
| 16 | With an oath he struggled up , plucked the arrow from the crutch and stumbled off among the trees . |
| 17 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 18 | Dorothea did not even mind when she lost her grip and wandered off down the avenues of the past , for sometimes she could accompany her , at any rate part of the way , and |
| 19 | She turned her back on Simon and walked off into the sand dunes . |
| 20 | Waggoner quietly got to his feet and walked off down the 17th . |
| 21 | Then he scrambled to his feet and hared off between the trees . |
| 22 | We decided to forget about the third canister and made off across the cornfield at speed , the jeep bouncing up and down on the very uneven surface . |
| 23 | She combed her hair , applied her make-up and set off for the Post Office . |
| 24 | He stood up , flexed his powerful shoulders and having pulled on a jerkin and breeches , went through to the kitchen , ate a hunk of fresh-baked bread and walked off down the steep narrow hill that led between stone cottages to Mother Russell 's alehouse , where the Pascoe girls earned their living . |
| 25 | She climbed onto the bike and set off in the direction from which she had come , gathering speed as she descended . |
| 26 | The interiors of a number of parish churches were similarly transformed as the Laudian bishops campaigned vigorously for the erection of altars positioned permanently at the east end of the chancel and railed off from the nave . |
| 27 | Although it was raining and freezing cold outside , we all got ready and pulled ourselves into our wet suits and set off for the river . |
| 28 | Cara had attended the Dallam wedding mainly to annoy Miss Ernestine Baker and , having thoroughly annoyed her , had suddenly lost heart and walked off among the gravestones to contemplate what she was coming to recognize as the end of another rainbow . |
| 29 | So we gritted our teeth and set off along the Pyg-motorway past the army 's blasted and unforgivable folly , writhing and frothing and swearing and laughing aghast — the vapours thickening the while , so that when we looked down from Bwlch Moch , Llydaw was rimless , leaden obscurity and our hair mist-beaded like grizzled Rastafarians . |
| 30 | Realising that there was more snow on the way , she clenched her teeth and set off for the moors . |